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Password control
Password control allows you to implement the following features:
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Manage login and super password setup, expirations, and updates for device management
users.
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Control user login status based on predefined policies.
Local users are divided into device management users and network access users. This feature
applies only to device management users.
Minimum password length
You can define the minimum length of user passwords. If a user enters a password that is shorter
than the minimum length, the system rejects the password.
Password composition policy
A password can be a combination of characters from the following types:
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Uppercase letters A to Z.
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Lowercase letters a to z.
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Digits 0 to 9.
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Special characters. See
Table 11 Special characters
Character name
Symbol
Character name
Symbol
Ampersand sign
&
Apostrophe
'
Asterisk *
At
sign
@
Back quote
`
Back slash
\
Blank space
N/A
Caret
^
Colon :
Comma
,
Dollar sign
$
Dot
.
Equal sign
=
Exclamation point
!
Left angle bracket
<
Left brace
{
Left bracket
[
Left parenthesis
(
Minus sign
-
Percent sign
%
Plus sign
+
Pound sign
#
Quotation marks
"
Right angle bracket
>
Right brace
}
Right bracket
]
Right parenthesis
)
Semi-colon
;
Slash
/
Tilde
~
Underscore _
Vertical
bar
|
Depending on the system's security requirements, you can set the minimum number of character
types a password must contain and the minimum number of characters for each type, as shown
in
